The other day, we encountered a problem during one of our performance tests. We observed from the database side that there is a steady increase of connections over time. Of course, we immediately suspected there is a newly introduced connection leak somewhere...

Overview With the AOS tool, a member of our support team can view your desktop and share control of your mouse and keyboard to get you on your way to a solution. The tool can speed up problem determination, collection of data, and ultimately, your...

One part of my job is helping other teams adopt DevOps in general, and continuous delivery in particular. But I have a problem: many of them have a suite of automated tests that run slowly; so slowly that they only run a build, and the tests that run in the...

In today's web application, more and more logic is implemented in client-side which makes the front-end development of web application more complicated. Since nowadays the front-end development plays a big role in modern web project, the...

In my previous blog post, I shared the 5 best practices my teams have learned during our own DevOps Journey. 1. Expand agile practices beyond development and test to include client, business stakeholders,...

IBM Cloud and creating a smarter planet Starting in the United States and Canada, IBM clients will be able move forward with their test environments using the IBM cloud. The IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud offering provides...

Are you tired of hearing about Cloud Computing without having any hands-on experience? Here's your chance. IBM has recently launched its IBM Development and Test Cloud beta. This gives you a "sandbox" to play in. Here's a few steps to get...

In this post, I will briefly explain how to test for the POODLE vulnerability with a tool called OpenSSL ( https://www.openssl.org/about/ ) (With much thanks to Jeff Rodriguez for the original information on OpenSSL) You can also read the official...